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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

Peter Lynch

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
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Businesses
Someday
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I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
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When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
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You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
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More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
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I like to buy a company any fool can manage because eventually one will.
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The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.
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I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
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If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
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Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.
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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
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You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.
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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
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In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
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